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<blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 8723104" data-attributes="member: 10638">Another thing I don't like about 5e:&nbsp; My beef with the DMG not having a character replacement standard that isn't a DM-dick-move.In 1974, you got punished for losing a character. You started over. Heaven forbid you were a good, loyal, player who kept notes and stayed in character--ha ha! You. Get. Screwed. Start over mutha-fatha! You' a' loser!Fast-forward to 5e:&nbsp; Nothing has changed in the DMG. Without specificity, DM-culture still feels it is necessary to punish players who have a character die/retire/replaced. It's a minus 10% penalty to experience, or start over a level 1 lower, or whatever else the dick-DM decides to throw on a player. Character death is ALWAYS a sore spot in campaign play (one-shots, who cares?) and the DMG needs a statement that &quot;Standard is: your replacement character begins with 100% of previous character's xp.&quot; Instead, there is still this 1974 mentality of punishing players. The DMG does zero to deal with this single issue. &quot;Let the DM decide.&quot; Sure, but how about we begin with a decency standard of not punishing players.We wouldn't need &quot;impossible to die&quot; rules (3 saves? full overnight healing? instant 40 hit points from a HD heal..really?) if the roleplaying standard were updated in the DMG to &quot;Don't punish a player for character death..oh, and remind them to always have a back-up so they can jump back into play as soon as they're ready.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emirikol, post: 8723104, member: 10638"] Another thing I don't like about 5e: My beef with the DMG not having a character replacement standard that isn't a DM-dick-move. In 1974, you got punished for losing a character. You started over. Heaven forbid you were a good, loyal, player who kept notes and stayed in character--ha ha! You. Get. Screwed. Start over mutha-fatha! You' a' loser! Fast-forward to 5e: Nothing has changed in the DMG. Without specificity, DM-culture still feels it is necessary to punish players who have a character die/retire/replaced. It's a minus 10% penalty to experience, or start over a level 1 lower, or whatever else the dick-DM decides to throw on a player. Character death is ALWAYS a sore spot in campaign play (one-shots, who cares?) and the DMG needs a statement that "Standard is: your replacement character begins with 100% of previous character's xp." Instead, there is still this 1974 mentality of punishing players. The DMG does zero to deal with this single issue. "Let the DM decide." Sure, but how about we begin with a decency standard of not punishing players. We wouldn't need "impossible to die" rules (3 saves? full overnight healing? instant 40 hit points from a HD heal..really?) if the roleplaying standard were updated in the DMG to "Don't punish a player for character death..oh, and remind them to always have a back-up so they can jump back into play as soon as they're ready." [/QUOTE]

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